Jeff Burt

AUSTIN, Texas—Dell and Microsoft a year ago unveiled the Cloud Platform System, a hybrid cloud offering that paired Microsoft’s Azure cloud computing technology with hardware and management products from Dell. The cloud-in-a-box platform was aimed at large businesses to help them accelerate their move to the cloud, and according to Dell CEO Michael Dell, customer […]

AUSTIN, Texas—Dell officials at the Dell World 2015 show here are showing off a security service that they say offers customers a new way of detecting and blocking advanced persistent threats. The company is offering a technology preview of its SonicWall APT Protection Service, which will be available in both Dell firewalls and email security […]

AUSTIN, Texas—EMC promises to cast a larger shadow over the Dell World 2015 show here this week. On a day when Dell made a series of announcements around everything from the data center and big data to security, PCs and the Internet of things (IoT), it was the company’s $67 billion bid for EMC and […]

AUSTIN, Texas—Dell officials are launching a broad array of data center resources aimed at helping enterprises running large-scale data centers to more quickly scale their infrastructures to meet the changing demands of an increasingly digital world brought on by such trends as cloud computing and big data. Among the offerings announced Oct. 20 on the […]

Dell’s introduction in August of its Scalable Solutions business that builds customized systems for scale-out organizations is the latest illustration of the company’s evolution from a PC box maker to an enterprise IT solutions provider. Dell a decade ago was better known as a company that could build a PC from industry-standard parts and leverage […]

Intel, despite several years of trying to push its processor technology into smartphones and other mobile devices, has had relatively little to show for its efforts. Asus’ ZenPhone 2 is powered by an Intel Atom chip, but most of the devices on the market are powered by processors based on the ARM architecture. However, Intel […]

Nokia cleared the last regulatory hurdle to its $16.6 billion acquisition of Alcatel-Lucent when Chinese antitrust regulators gave their approval to the deal. Nokia officials announced Oct. 19 that the acquisition, which will create a formidable networking company that will be able to better compete with such vendors as Ericsson, Cisco Systems and Huawei Technologies, […]

EMC Will Be Latest and Greatest of Dell’s Many Acquisitions Dell’s acquisitions have helped transform the company and extend its reach into such areas as networking, storage, software, cloud, big data and security. Dell = EMC2 The EMC deal will give Dell more capabilities in such areas as data storage, virtualization and the cloud, and […]

Intel’s tiny Curie chip, introduced earlier this year as a module that would find its way into a range of wearable devices, will begin appearing next year in a new Arduino development board aimed at student and enthusiasts. At the Maker Faire Rome Oct. 16, officials with Intel and the maker of the popular Arduino […]

Advanced Micro Devices officials continue to talk about the industry segments they’re pushing into to bring the chip maker back to profitability, from data center servers to gaming systems to immersive systems. And every 90 days the company shows just how tied it still is to the struggling PC space. AMD over the past few […]

The world’s top three PC makers are joining with Intel and Microsoft in a six-week, $70 million advertising campaign designed to boost sales in what has been a declining market over the past three-plus years. In an unusual demonstration of solidarity that highlights the frustration they’ve felt as worldwide PC shipments have fallen since 2011 […]

Mitel wants to sit at the intersection of mobile, enterprises and the cloud. Officials with the unified communications (UC) vendor are unveiling an array of new and enhanced products and capabilities that are designed to address the increasingly mobile nature of today’s world, where the line between consumer and enterprise technology is blurring and more […]